1728 BROADSIDE ADVERTISING THE SALE OF LAND IN DUTCHESS COUNTY, NEW YORK PROVINCE
Very rare early advertising broadside, 1p. 4to, Sep. 2, 1728, for the sale of land in Dutchess County, New York, in part: "This Is to give Notice, that Capt. Albert Pawling, of Ulster County in the Province of New York, and Catherina his Wife, and Mr. Gilbert Livingstone, of said County, and Cornelia his Wife, Intend to apply to the Honourable House of Representatives of this Province of New-York, for an Act of Assembly of this province, to enable [them] ... to sell some Part of certain Lands in this County, and other Parts of this Province, formerly belonging to Coll. Henry Beekman, late of the said county of Ulster, deceased, and by him in his Life time, by his last Will and Testament, settled on them the said Catherina and Cornelia respectively... whereof all manner of Persons any ways concerned, are hereby directed to take Notice..." The broadside continues with an attestation by a Justice of the Peace, Jacob Kip, and a witness, Roslof Kip, that the above notice is a true copy of the advertisement drafted by Pawling and Livingstone, to be posted at" "... the Church at Rhine Creek in Dutchess County aforesaid..."At the conclusion are the mark of Jacob Kip and the signature of Roslof. Folds, minor toning at the edges, else very good. The Livingston, Pawling, Beekman and Kip families were among the most prominent New York settlers of the era, and this represents one of the earliest known advertising broadsides to be printed in the American colonies.